Fedralism and economic reform

international perspectives

This collection focuses on the ways in which federalism has affected and been affected by economic reform, especially global integration. The editors and contributors focus in particular on the political economy of institutional and economic change - how the division of authority between national and subnational ...

Économie monétaire et financière

Qu'est-ce que la monnaie ? Pourquoi les agents économiques en ont-ils besoin ? Comment est-elle mesurée par les autorités monétaires ? De quelle manière exerce-t-elle une influence sur l'activité économique ? Comment le système financier est-il organisé ? Quelle instance est responsable de la politique monétaire unique au ...

Innovation strategies in interdependent States

essays on Smaller Nations, regions and cities in a globalized world

Examining the issues facing smaller regions and countries, John de la Mothe explores how innovation, strategy and interdependence shape their performance, competition, and futures. Innovation and interdependence are central elements of advanced and advancing economies. In our globalized world, the production of knowledge is continually ...

New frontiers in the economics of innovation and new technology

essays in honour of Paul A. David

Recent research on the economics of innovation has acknowledged the importance of path dependence and networks in the evolution of economies and the diffusion of new techniques, products, and processes. These are topics pioneered by Paul A. David, one of the world's leading scholars ...

Handbook on the economics of discrimination

Discrimination's dynamic nature means that no single theory, method, data or study should be relied upon to assess its magnitude, causes, or remedies. Despite some gains in our understanding, these remain active areas of debate among researchers, practitioners and policymakers. The specially commissioned papers ...

Labour market adjustments in Europe

It is now widely accepted that expansionary fiscal or monetary policies alone are unlikely to help Europe's ailing economies. Solving Europe's economic problems requires reform of the economic institutions that influence economic activity and the way the economy responds to macroeconomic shocks. This ...

Sufficient reason

volitional pragmatism and the meaning of economic institutions

In the standard analysis of economic institutions - which include social conventions, the working rules of an economy, and entitlement regimes (property relations) - economists invoke the same theories they use when analyzing individual behavior. In this profoundly innovative book, Daniel Bromley challenges these theories, arguing instead ...

Monetary integration and dollarization

No Panacea

This book deals with the economic consequences of monetary integration, which has long been dominated by the Optimal Currency Area (OCA) paradigm. In this model, money is perceived as having developed from a private sector cost minimization process to facilitate transactions. Not surprisingly, the book ...

Post-keynesian principles of economic policy

Post-Keynesian economics is moving beyond criticism of mainstream economics and is focusing on providing a positive alternative to orthodoxy. This book gathers carefully selected and original papers by a number of distinguished post-Keynesian writers from Europe and the Americas and converges on the principles that ...

The Eurogroup

how a secretive circle of finance ministers shape european econommic governance

This is the first study on the work of the Eurogroup - the monthly informal meetings of the euro area's finance ministers, the Commission, and the European Central Bank. It: explains how the particular working method applied by the Eurogroup impacts on the conduct and ...

Latin America's political economy of the possible

beyond good revolutionaries and free-marketeers

The political and economic transformation is now emerging in Latin America, as some countries eschew rigid ideologies and adopt a more pragmatic combination of neoclassical orthodoxies and progressive social policies. Neither socialism nor free market neoliberalism has been a very helpful model for Latin America ...

Autónomos, emprendedores, economía social y su financiación

(Revista Perspectivas del Sistema Financiero, Nº86, año 2006)

SUMARIO: Intorducción. Los autónomos en el mercado de trabajo español: situación, políticas y retos. Un estatuto para el fomento del trabajo autónomo. Autoempleo, autónomos y economía social en España. Mujeres emprenndedoras: capacidades distintivas y desempeño empresarial. Nevas perspectivas en los mecanismos de financiación de los ...

Indicators for urban and regional planning

the interplay of policy and methods

This book focuses on the measurement and utilisation of quantitative indicators in the urban and regional planning fields. There has been a resurgence of academic and policy interest in using indicators to inform planning, partly in response to the current government's information intensive approach ...

Innovation dynamism and economic growth

a nonlinear perspective

Contents: Preface 1. Nonlinear Dynamism of Innovation: Executive Summary Part I: Diffusion of Innovation and Economic Growth 2. Dynamics of Product Diffusion and Economic Development 3. Kondratiev Business Cycles and Innovation Dynamism 4. Sequence of Bubble, Crash and Depression 5. Trunk Innovations and Institutional Change ...

Principled agents?

the political economy of good government

What is good government? Why do some governments fail? How do you implement political accountability in practice? What incentives do you need to put in place to ensure that politicians and public servants act in the public interest and not their own? These questions and ...

Key debates in new political economy

This is a concise and highly informative overview of the major intellectual debates within the field of political economy over the last decade. Each chapter provides a review of a key area written by a distinguished expert in the field. A comprehensive introduction locates these ...

Structural unemployment in western Europe

reasons and remedies

Leading international economists examine the different patterns and long-term trends behind persistent unemployment across Western Europe in light of recent developments in labour market theory. Structural unemployment, or persistently high levels of unemployment that do not follow the ups and downs of a typical business ...

Who controls the Internet?

illusions of a borderless world

Will cyberanarchy rule the net? And if we do find a way to regulate our cyberlife, will national borders dissolve as the Internet becomes the first global state? In this provocative new work, Jack L. Goldsmith and Tim Wu dismiss the fashionable talk of both ...

Governing environmental flows

global challenges to social theory

This title lays the foundations for a new conceptualisation of global environmental governance that draws on the flow perspective found in recent work in sociology. Globalisation and the changing role of the nation-state call for new approaches to environmental governance and new ways to conceptualise ...

From the corn laws to free trade

interests, ideas, and institutions in historical perspective

The overlapping and interacting forces that caused a Conservative government to repeal the protectionist Corn Laws against its own political principles and economic interests: extensive qualitative and quantitative analysis. The repeal of Britain's Corn Laws in 1846 - one of the most important economic policy ...